MERLOT Preparation

It's Saturday and we're getting ready for our trip to N'Orleans...the Big Easy. Anticipating Cajun cookin', po'boys, creole, gumbo, etc...and of course that famous Louisiana jazz & blues. Our conference is in the heart of the French Quarter and I am eager to check out Toulouse Street, Bourbon Street, and the mighty Mississippi River.


The conference looks quite exciting too; the program is full of great collaborations of technology with pedagogy. We have prepared a 90-minute workshop that we hope will begin a conversation to develop a strategic planning tool for Digital Portfolios in both the educational institution and the corporate training department. We are still hoping to define a fuller set of adult educator competencies to load into the Digital Portfolio we will be demonstrating (thanks to Winvision - http://www.winvision.nl/), but if necessary may borrow some from those listed in the CCEDP program at NSCC.


A key activity of our workshop will be a rotating thought-builder on strategic considerations for the adoption and implementation of digital portfolio in the institution. Our plan is to put together 3-4 stations around areas like technology orientation, Portfolio focus, Educational philosophy, etc. as well as a station for Brainstorm...whole strategic areas that may not be covered in the other stations. We'd love to hear from you, too, if you have some ideas about key strategic areas that need to be considered when adopting ePortfolio.


The plan is to post up the input we get from the workshop and share it for a continuing discussion as we work on a strategic tool - either web-based or maybe a spreadsheet-based application.


N'Awlins, here we come...y'all come back now y'hear?